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Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire western ‘Near Dark’ is “fun times”
I didn’t see the vampire western Near Dark when it came out in 1987. I didn’t see most of the iconic movies that came out that year: Robocop, Predator, Full Metal Jacket. However, I did see Masters of the Universe in the theater that summer, a big-budget adaptation of the afterschool cartoon series based on a popular line of action figures.
I was a boy in 1987. A newly minted teenager. Thirteen years old. I was full of fear and hormones, and for the first time, I was noticing the adult world, and I didn’t like what I saw. That was a plague year. Finally, a global health emergency was declared—a pandemic.
I remember that year because suddenly, the world was openly talking about a fatal disease that could be transmitted through intimate contact or intravenous drug use.
I was made aware of so much of this because there was a young biology teacher in my Junior High who talked openly about things she was told not to talk about, and I think, eventually, she stopped talking about those things because she needed the job.
But she tried to tell us the truth. Adults don’t know what they’re doing. They lie when scared. This disease wasn’t new…
